Acknowledgements

An Introduction to The Black Press: A Shadowed Canadian Tradition
Claudine Bonner, Boulou Ebanda de B’béri, Nina Reid-Maroney

Part One: The Black Press and the Abolitionist Context

1. An Education without Walls: The Voice of the Fugitive and the Provincial Freeman as an Unconventional Classroom
Lorene Bridgen-Lennie

2. The Black Press and The Voice of the Bondsman
Neil Brooks, Nina Reid-Maroney, Scott Schofield

Part Two: Reconstructing the Black Press, 1870–1900

3. As Seen in the News: Representations of Blackness in the Mainstream Nova Scotian Newspapers, 1867–1910
Claudine Bonner

4. Georgiana Whetsel and the Case for Nineteenth-Century Black New Brunswick Newspaper Culture
Jennifer Harris

5. “Read. Important.” Anderson Ruffin Abbott’s Missionary Messenger Scrapbooks
Nina Reid-Maroney

Part Three: Representation and Activism in the Twentieth Century

6. “You Will Do the Race and Yourselves Much Good”: The Black Athlete and Sport Discourse in The Clarion (1946–1949)
Ornella Nzindukiyimana

7. Brand Advertising in Contrast in the 1970s: Selling Race and Culture Through Beer
Cheryl Thompson

List of Contributors

Index

Claudine Bonner is the Canada Research Chair in Racial Justice and African Diaspora Migration and an associate professor of sociology at Mount Allison University.

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Boulou Ebanda de b’Béri is a professor of Communication and Cultural Studies and the founding director of the Audiovisual Media Lab for the study of Cultures and Societies at the University of Ottawa.

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Nina Reid-Maroney is an associate professor in the Department of History at Huron University College, Western University.

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